{"id":267717,"date":"2026-04-14T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:44:06","slug":"o-sea-a-popular-seafood-spot-in-orange-to-close-this-month-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267717\/","title":{"rendered":"O Sea, a popular seafood spot in Orange, to close this month \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening in 2021 in Old Towne Orange<\/a>, O Sea will close its doors for good, with its final service slated for Thursday, April 30.<\/p>\n

King\u2019s Seafood Company, a Costa Mesa-based restaurant group, acquired the O Sea brand and its intellectual property. O Sea founder Mike Flynn will move into a senior role at the company as vice president of culinary and brand development, while the restaurant\u2019s general manager Sarah Everett will take on a leadership training and development role within the organization.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a proud and full-circle moment,\u201d said Sam King, founder of King\u2019s Seafood Company, in a written release. \u201cMike began his career with us early on, and it\u2019s incredibly meaningful to welcome him back in a leadership role. His creativity, perspective, and commitment to quality are in complete alignment with our company\u2019s values and will be invaluable as we continue to evolve our brands and invest in the future of our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

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O Sea staff will be offered the chance to interview for jobs within King\u2019s Seafood Company\u2019s portfolio of restaurants, which include Water Grill, King\u2019s Fish House, 555 East Steakhouse, Lou and Mickey\u2019s, Meat on Ocean and Pier Burger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of what our team built with O Sea,\u201d said Flynn in the same release. \u201cJoining King\u2019s Seafood Company is an exciting next chapter and an opportunity to bring our ideas and experience into a broader platform. It\u2019s an honor to rejoin an organization that played such an important role in my early career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flynn opened the seafood spot (the name a playful riff on \u201cOC\u201d) on Glassell Street in June of 2021. It built a following for such inventive dishes as Oaxacan hot shrimp and ahi crispy rice alongside its adherence to sustainable practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy deep passion for responsible coastal cuisine led me to develop this concept, which has been designed to make seafood approachable, contemporary and just plain fun for our guests,\u201d Flynn said in a 2021 \u201cOrange County Register\u201d interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are no plans to reopen O Sea at another location. It remains unclear what will replace the Glassell Street space once O Sea shutters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening in 2021 in Old Towne Orange, O Sea will close its doors for good, with its final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,171,611,944,412,580,420,136],"class_list":["post-267717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-orange","tag-orange-county","tag-restaurant-closures","tag-restaurants","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}